Unknown Expense Found in Jagera's Budget, Called "Significant"

Anfang - A curious unexplaned expense has been found in the budget of the Commonwealth Government for the 2008-2009 fiscal year. Labled "operating expenses", and totaling just over two billion conargoes, the item relates to an extremely minor project in the Ministry of Industry and Trade, aimed at research into new power regulation technologies.

"The real problem with this significant expense is the huge amount of money allocated to what is seen as a very minor project," says Dannike Bjarstok, representing the Jageran Fair Tax Alliance (JFTA), a government fiscal monitor that first discovered the expense. "The power regulation project is important, but I severely doubt they needed two billion conargoes for "operating expenses", considering the rest of their budget is meticulously allocated. It is not as if they had to spend five thousand on a hammer, and twenty thousand on a toilet seat. If they did, I want to see that toilet."

Further investigation by the Commonwealth Star and JFTA has shown more than ten billion conargoes has been spent on "operating expenses" for the project over the last eight years, with no further breakdown of costs supplied. There are no receipts or itemized expenses included with any of the reports obtained.

The Ministry of Industry and Trade declined to comment on the issue. A spokesperson for the Ministry of Finance would only state that the funds had been properly earmarked following Jageran law, and no further information need be available. It was also suggested the JFTA were blowing the issue out of proportion, with references made to the multi-billion conargo expense accounts for several other government agencies, such as the Jageran Military.

The Commonwealth Star has received no response to requests to view the facility requiring such lavish funding to sustain it.